Nova Roma
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.014, 28.956
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient place name, later known as Constantinople and then as Istanbul
History
New Rome was the original name given by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great to his new imperial capital in AD 330, which was built as an expansion of the city of Byzantium on the European coast of the Bosporus strait.